. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 148 PREFACE TO VOLS. II. AND III. i ')' Bro to be OHpccially treated of, wo shall content ourselvoH witu stating, tliat out of Latiiain's four hundred and sLxty-four species, two hundred and sixty-nino are land birds. Of these, one hundred and fifty at most are admitted by us, and though it would not bo difficult to prove nominal about sixty, there will still remain about sixty others, whoso habitat is false, or which are not sufficiently investigated. Such is the state of things to w
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 148 PREFACE TO VOLS. II. AND III. i ')' Bro to be OHpccially treated of, wo shall content ourselvoH witu stating, tliat out of Latiiain's four hundred and sLxty-four species, two hundred and sixty-nino are land birds. Of these, one hundred and fifty at most are admitted by us, and though it would not bo difficult to prove nominal about sixty, there will still remain about sixty others, whoso habitat is false, or which are not sufficiently investigated. Such is the state of things to wiiicli we call the attention of ornithologists. However tliis may be, Wilson only described two hundred and seventy species, of wliieh one hundred and seventy-nine wero land birds. Six- teen more are adtled in the first volume of this work. The second and third will contain an ailditional sixteen, after which there yet romaiu five others whoso existence wo have ascertained, making a total of two hundred ami sixteen.* The large size and importance of some of the birds given in the two present volumes, among which arc three Hawks and four Grouse, have obliged us to distribute the sixteen new species that they contain, together with nine others, of which two only are reduced, upon twelve plates. It therefore rested with our publishers to issue one large, or two smaller volumes, and the latter course is tliat which they have thought proper to adopt. * These muy all be found in our Si/iuipnis of the lUrds of the I'liiled Slalcii, and Appendix, published in the Annala of the Lyceum oj' Natural Uiatory of New York, Vol. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813; Canino, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, Prince de. Philadelphia : Porter & Coates
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